Programmes | Zoe Butt | Practicing Friendship: Respecting Time as a Curator

Zoe Butt formerly of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City, and facilitator of AAA's 2011 Mobile Library programme in Vietnam, contributes a text looking at friendship. Citing this as a platform that is integral to the longevity of particular kinds of arts infrastructure, she invites others considered independent, 'alternative', and archival in spirit to speak among friends, while simultaneously investigating a method of working strategically under conditions with political or cultural restrictions.

15 Invitations for 15 Years

15 Invitations for 15 Years is supported by the S. H. Ho Foundation Limited, the C. K. & Kay Ho Foundation, and The Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The programme is part of the ADC 20th Anniversary Celebration Series. Special thanks to Hani Charaf, Kemistry Design; and Spring Workshop.

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15 Invitations

A special programme series featuring exhibitions, projects, written works, performances, and set of e-dossiers marking Asia Art Archive's 15-year anniversary

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Exhibition

Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan | Cabinet of Resistance I

The Jaffna-based visual artist and art educator draws parallels between methods of archiving and art making, while delving into the idea of 'home' within the context of ethnic conflict.

7 Nov 2016–2 Jun 2017

Publication Project

Rashid Rana | Present Elsewhere

The Pakistan-based artist inquiries into the possibilities of fiction to construct multiple pasts through notes, images, and schematic representations of his collaborative work-in-progress.

Mar 2017

Virtual Reality Experience

Nonny de la Peña | Passage: The Life of a Wall on Lin He Road

This pioneer of "immersive journalism" draws from AAA's Collection to create a new iteration of an earlier performance by New York and Beijing-based artist Lin Yilin that pushes the boundaries of virtual reality and digital technology.

Mar 2017

Workshop

Solomon Benjamin & Wing Shing Tang | Framing Spatial Stories

Hong Kong and Bangalore-based scholars of critical geography and urban studies consider the politics of contested urban settings to form new understandings of art in Asia as a collage of multiple logics.

Jan 2017

Exhibition

Wong Wai Yin | Talking Archive

The Hong Kong-based artist and 2011 AAA resident invites a psychic medium to uncover the "true opinions" behind the material in AAA's Collection by speaking to them, with his findings being shown as in the form of a video and site-specific installation.

Oct–Nov 2016

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Practicing Friendship: Respecting Time as a Curator

Zoe Butt considers the significance of friendships for artistic languages and forms